Popular Management Books: How They are Made and what They Mean for Organisations
- ISBN-10
- 1134615973
- ISBN-13
- 9781134615971
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-08-10
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Staffan Furusten
Description
The growing interest in management knowledge has generated an enormous literature and brought great success for a number of management gurus. This book is a timely and radical critique of the quick-fix solutions offered by popular management books. Features include: *Detailed criticism of the ideological hegemony of North American managerial discourse *An interrogation of books by leading populist management gurus such as Tom Peters, Richard Normann and Robert Waterman *An institutional approach to the creation, diffusion and consumption of management knowledge *The implications for organisations of acting on popular managerial discourse Popular Management Books is a much needed corrective to the under-researched truisms of many management books.
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Other editions
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- 1999
- 210 pages
- Paperback
- Psychology Press
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